moving to the USA

Mike

Legistine actu quod scripsi?

Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.

What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.

22 July 2011, 19:26

Gojoe

quote:
Originally posted by MattMck:
Hi I am a an Occupational health nurse advisor from the UK who would love to relocate to Montana. Anyone here have any advice? I know of the NCLEX and state legislature but wondered if anyone here had any specialist knowledge?
Thanks
Matt

You will need to see if your formal education/training will qualify you for an H1B visa in your medical field. I don't know what an Occupational health nurse advisor is, but you will need know what that job title is in the U.S. and if your job qualifies. Then find an employer who will hire you in that career field. Beware of any online services that offer to find you a job for a fee. There are numerous ripoffs out there that will take your money. Even to the point where you will arrive in the U.S. and be refused entry as unqualified. Good luck, the medical field is one area where there a shortage of qualified individuals.

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We unfortunately will vote our way into socialism.
The end result will be having to shoot our way out of it.

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Give me the simple life; an AK-47, a good guard dog and a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.

I do not hunt in order to kill, but kill in order that I have hunted.

'If ur'e gonna do it, do it right!'

"The difference between adventure and disaster is preparation."
"The problem with quoting info from the internet is that you can never be sure it is accurate" Abraham Lincoln

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When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere.

NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR.

I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process.

...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men.
-Edward, duke of York

". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

Cogito ergo venor- KPete

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”
― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations”

28 July 2011, 04:07

Gatogordo

quote:
Originally posted by twoseventy:
One can collect ss with less than forty quarters-it takes forty quarters to qualify for maximum benefits.

You'll find that I am very rarely wrong about easily checkable facts. In this case.....from the Social Security site.......

quote:
When you work and pay Social Security taxes, you earn “credits” toward Social Security benefits.

The number of credits you need to get retirement benefits depends on when you were born. If you were born in 1929 or later, you need 40 credits (10 years of work).
(skipping some irrelevant text)
No retirement benefits can be paid until you have the required number of credits.

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We unfortunately will vote our way into socialism.
The end result will be having to shoot our way out of it.

31 July 2011, 19:11

twoseventy

quote:
Originally posted by Gatogordo:
quote:
Originally posted by twoseventy:
One can collect ss with less than forty quarters-it takes forty quarters to qualify for maximum benefits.

You'll find that I am very rarely wrong about easily checkable facts. In this case.....from the Social Security site.......

quote:
When you work and pay Social Security taxes, you earn “credits” toward Social Security benefits.

The number of credits you need to get retirement benefits depends on when you were born. If you were born in 1929 or later, you need 40 credits (10 years of work).
(skipping some irrelevant text)
No retirement benefits can be paid until you have the required number of credits.

I stand corrected.